Fact #88568
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Humble Pie and King Crimson play the last of four nights at The Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. After the gig, Ian McDonald and Mike Giles of King Crimson tell leader Robert Fripp that they are leaving the band.
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Robert Fripp : My stomach disappeared. King Crimson was everything to me. To keep the band together I offered to leave instead but Ian said that the band was more me than them.
Mike Giles : I felt that sitting in a van, an aeroplane and hotel rooms was a waste of time even if you are getting a great deal of money for it. Ian and I feel that we'd rather have less money and do more creative, interesting and fulfilling things with all the travelling time. The main thing is for Ian and I to write and record using musicians of similar attitude with the accent on good music, really doing what we feel we should be doing with a lot of emphasis on production.
Part of the reason for the split was that I didn't feel I could do this within King Crimson and they needed the freedom to follow through what they needed to do.
Greg Lake : Bob wanted me to stay in the band and put a new line up together, but I wasn't prepared to carry on. I had already made up my mind to work with Keith Emerson, but I agreed to help him finish the second LP.
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Mike Giles : I felt that sitting in a van, an aeroplane and hotel rooms was a waste of time even if you are getting a great deal of money for it. Ian and I feel that we'd rather have less money and do more creative, interesting and fulfilling things with all the travelling time. The main thing is for Ian and I to write and record using musicians of similar attitude with the accent on good music, really doing what we feel we should be doing with a lot of emphasis on production.
Part of the reason for the split was that I didn't feel I could do this within King Crimson and they needed the freedom to follow through what they needed to do.
Greg Lake : Bob wanted me to stay in the band and put a new line up together, but I wasn't prepared to carry on. I had already made up my mind to work with Keith Emerson, but I agreed to help him finish the second LP.
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